MS. Sansk. c. 115

MSS. Sansk. c.

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Śrīpati’s Ramalasāra, 19th cent.?

The Ramalasāra of Srīpati, a treatise on divination by means of dice, a method borrowed from the Arabs and Persians

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] oṃ atha śrīpṛśchākasminṛne putrotpattir bhaviṣyati |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iii + 8 + xli

Dimensions (binding): 32.1 × 19.7 cm.

Condition

all chap. I and part of chap. II are missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

perhaps about the beginning of the 19th cent.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 324).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1588, pp. 311-312

Availability

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Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1588, pp. 311-312

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries